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"Land of Hope and Glory. It is a champagne-fuelled, teary-eyed orgy of patriotism. There seems to be something distinctly English about that tune. But why?
Because music does indeed have a national character, says Aniruddh Patel of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California. Put simply, music echoes speech.
Patel and his colleagues came to this conclusion after comparing the rhythms and pitch variations of English and French music and speech..."
New Scientist: Music: The international language?, 9 juli 2005

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